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According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what's going on.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Tax dollars are definitely being stolen... by this unelected buffoon

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 55 minutes ago

No no, billionaires would never steal money after closing down oversight and watchdog agencies, then brazenly starting a new ''office of mysterious authority you don't get to background check that operates in the dark'' and using it to access the most sensitive parts of US government fictionallity. That's crazy talk!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 23 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The more this dipshit talks about programming the more I'm convinced that he's got absolutely no clue how any of it works. Like, he's famous for creating PayPal, I'm really wondering if he paid someone to code that shit and just took credit (and all the money from its sale).

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

He didn't create PayPal. He co-founded x.com, and was replaced as ceo for being inexperienced in less than a year. x.com later merged with confinity, which operated PayPal. It was at this point that musk returned as CEO, until he got kicked out again in 2000.

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 57 minutes ago

I'd bet a million dollar one of his lil baby faced goons did an export to .csv so Leon could open it up in excel, do a remove duplicate values, and send it back and have the goon could glaze him for being a genius.

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Where did this come from? Is this a precursor to pushing some blockchain shit or something?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

I'd bet that the government is probably the largest user of SQL. Unless there are really old systems that predate SQL. I'd imagine they have shitloads of COBOL for example.

[–] commander@lemmings.world 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This retard thinks the government doesn't use SQL...

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

SQLite was literally invented within the US military.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds just like a former manager that thought nosql was the end all and that SQL had no place.

If course they developed their app that required frequent data migrations because they were in fact very dependent on all the records matching the latest schema.

[–] rwtwm@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

There was a period in my life when I had to remind people frequently that NoSQL stood for 'not only SQL'.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

He sure is loose with that r-word…

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 1 points 33 minutes ago

His father used to call him that. Makes sense he uses it lightly.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Those who live is Asperger's house shouldn't be casting retarded stones.

[–] uxia@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 hours ago

It gets a reaction and that lets him feel something.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 49 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Someone needs to explain to Musk how to debug with the JSON so that the ipv6 GUI does not overflow into the git API front-end

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Easy. Just defragment the kernel flux, water root but do not saturate the soil, and then set the virtual tensors to sigWumbo++. If you saturated root then set the tensors to asyncoMumbo-- to account for the extra conductivity. After that refragment the kernel flux because it was happy that way.

[–] jacecomix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wumbo++ is by far my favorite development tool

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Does Wumbo# count? I'd like to be part of something

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

When Elon bought Twitter, I realised right away I'd need to close my account.

What made me hurry up exporting my data and closing the account were the reports of Elon Musk personally fucking with the systems, and the subsequent glitches and outages. Had to get it done while the site was still moderately functional.

And they just let this guy get his hands on actually important national computer infrastructure? Fucking hell.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Problem is you can't shut down your account with the government because that's your everything. That's your identity, that's your retirement, that's your unemployment. And he's been given carte blanche to fuck with it in any way he feels like by the giant orange douchebag who thinks Elmo's a fucking genius. And the Republican Congress is either unwilling or too scared shitless of his billion$ to get in his way.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Yup, the bottom line is, there was this dude who, upon buying a website, fucked it up.

Upon attaining unprecedented government position, he got access to government systems, and fucked them up.

Did anyone vote for this? No, no one voted for this. Were there supposed to be checks and balances to stop this from happening? Well, theoretically, maybe, but, urgh, the Founding Fathers didn't expect anyone to unleash the Ultimate Idiot on crucial data infrastructure.

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